“Somatotopic organization among parallel sensory pathways that promote a grooming sequence in Drosophila” is published in eLife today!

Check out our new preprint: Somatotopic organization among parallel sensory pathways that promote a grooming sequence in Drosophila. (bioRxiv)

We organized / co-organized the following events that were held in San Juan, Puerto Rico in February 2023:

Workshop on “How to build an optogenetics rig from scratch?” - Instructor Eric Hoopfer, PhD (Assistant Professor at Carlton College, MN)

3rd Functional Logic of Neural Circuits - Diamonds in the Rough (FLNDER 2023) funded by the NSF

5th Mini-Brains Symposium Puerto Rico (partially funded by the NSF)

We are very happy to share that we have been warded our first Brain Initiative R01 grant!!! - 1,3 Mio $$$ for the next three years with the possibility to renew for two more years.

We are happy to announce that we were awarded a research grant from the Puerto Rico Science Trust, as well as a Pilot Project COBRE grant from the NIH!

Congatulations to Luis A. Haddock III Soto and Adrian Alejandro Garcia to start graduate school in the coming semester at the University of Wisconsin - Madison and the University of California - Berkeley, respectively. We will miss both of you!

Congratulations to our undergraduate student Adrian Alejandro Garcia (middle), who received an award at ABRCMS (Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students) for his work done in Troy Littleton's lab at MIT during summer 2017!!

Great news: The Whitehall Foundation awarded us our first research grant!

After category 4 hurricane Maria made landfall on Puerto Rico September 20th 2017, our lab temporarily relocated to Janelia Research Campus (Ashburn, VA) and the Molecular Sciences Building (San Juan, PR) until access to power and water are restored. 

Getting ready for category 5 hurricane Irma to hit the north coast of Puerto Rico (September 6th).